Occupy Chicago protesters are calling Monday's announcement that the G-8 summit has been moved from Chicago to Camp David a victory for their cause, saying the decision will energize the organizations who had plans to be in Chicago for the G-8 and NATO summits

The news that the G-8 economic summit will not be held in Chicago shifts the focus to the other big meeting that will still bring dozens of leaders from around the world to the city in late May — the annual gathering of NATO alliance members.

Lawyers for dozens of Occupy Chicago protesters arrested in Grant Park said Wednesday the mass arrests amounted to a "dry run" by the Emanuel administration for handling protests during the G-8 and NATO summits.

The team Mayor Rahm Emanuel assembled to host the G-8 and NATO summits here in May knows there are important unsettled questions about costs, security and other logistics, but decisions on such key issues have been held up by a gathering 4,000 miles away in Hawaii.

With two international summits coming to Chicago in just seven months, the city got a chance to conduct a trial run early Sunday in arresting a large group of protesters without it escalating into violence.